2013 Linnaea Trifulau Barolo

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 93 points

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  7/14/2022 - robertel wrote:

  Made the mistake of opening my first bottle on a whim and not allowing time in a decanter. Unfair on the wine, no rating recorded. First taste was raw, acidic with unresolved tannins. The wine settled over time and was more approachable with food. The Barolo elements are there and should come to the fore with time. Will not open my next bottle for another 5 years.

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  12/6/2021 - Ed Johnson wrote:

  Still too young

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  8/12/2021 - Screwcaps Likes this wine: 93 Points

  13 Linnaea Barolo
  Ex cellars recently at a very good price. Great to see Diam (30s) being used- there’s nothing more frustrating than a beautiful wine screwed by a faulty cork and blind loyalty to tradition.
  
  Still too young. Raw, clean, and tannic. It’s a very pretty wine from the outset. Dried roses pull you in to a just medium weight entry. It’s high acid, very clean and crunchy with red cherry skins and mixed dried citrus peel.
  
  Char and smoke pull from early in the middle to black tea, mushroom, and leaf matter to tannins that I can best describe as tar and savoury teleggio mould. green peppery bitterness (rocket leaves?) grabs through the still quite raw and bracing tannins, unadorned by oak, provide a great frame for everything that came before it.
  
  Young, just slips in to excellent on my scale with upside potential. 93. I’ll drink my other bottle in 3-5 to give those raw tannins a little longer to soften.

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